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Smashingpmkns posted...

Aaron Paul is in Westworld. Not that it's even close to being as good as BB but it's popular...

Paul Hogan comes to mind though

He also voices a main character in Bojack Horseman. He's not gonna get an Emmy for Todd Chavez, but honestly he makes that show at points.

I can understand Paul Hogan. Something to take into account is that he was a pretty big comedian in Australia pre-Crocodile Dundee, with his own show and everything, and while he couldn't really maintain international stardom, he did continue to find work through to the early 2000's.

There's an Australian movie called Strange Bedfellows with him and Michael Caton where they conduct tax fraud by pretending to be a gay couple for the tax benefits - it got ripped off by I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry, with all of its pathos and drama gutted to make room for broad jokes about sexuality.

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I still don't like it. More power to people who are looking forward to it, and if it turns out to be good then I'm happy that I'm wrong, but I think the character models look like ass and the combat looks like dogshit to me.

Keep in mind, I was virulently against God of War 2018 because I objected to the shift towards what I perceived to be slow, grounded, Dark Souls-inspired combat like every fucking thing was doing in the 8th generation. And when the game came out and I was able to see what it was like, I ended up fucking loving it. So maybe this will be like that, where I reject the basic design of a game based on previews but end up really enjoying the whole product once it comes out.

Saying that - God of War 2018 always looked pretty awesome graphically, whereas the Avengers characters look generic and gross. It feels like they're trying to ride a line between cartoony and realistic, and all it accomplished is a bunch of character models that, at best, are metres away from falling down the uncanny valley. And I've seen Thor's gameplay - I think it looks terrible.

With God of War, I was buttmad because they cleaned up this stupid-ass arcade hack and slash franchise for what looked like cheap clout, like if they made The Last of Us with Kratos. I was against that because sometimes you just need some stupid bloody fun, so why would you clean up Kratos and put him in a grounded story? Ultimately, that did work out. This time, I think the game just looks half baked. The characters look bland, the story is shaping up to be bland and unsurprising - if they haven't already announced it, I'm willing to bet $20 that Captain America isn't really dead - and the combat I've seen looks so clunky and bad. Literally the only thing I've seen that makes me excited is MODOK, and even that can't carry an entire game if the product he's in is a bunch of half-baked, barely cobbled together shit.

Again - more power to you if you like how the game is shaping up. I think it looks awful, though.

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Solid Snake07 posted...

Your "nuh uh you are!" Defense isn't distracting anyone from how emotional you're getting right now

This comment reeks of emotional frailty

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Copy_X_Mk_ll posted...

Todd in the Shadows was, and still is, the only person from that whole group that has any entertainment value

I actually got into Todd and Lindsay years after Channel Awesome. Always thought the whole TGWTG/Channel Awesome thing was overblown and cringe, especially since TV Tropes - one of my main haunts as a teenager - fucking slurped TGWTG's nuts for yeeeeeeears. Also, my first exposure to a "good" TGWTG thing were the Spoony FF8 videos, and I honestly thought he was an unfunny dickhead.

Todd's videos are consistently entertaining and enlightening, and I get a lot out of Lindsay's critical analysis videos. From the RENT review's detailed breakdown of the AIDS crisis, to multiple videos breaking down different philosophical viewpoints and critical frameworks and applying them to media - Lindsay Ellis's videos are always really interesting.

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Jagr_68 posted...

Meanwhile, what embarassing thing is Doug Walker up to now?

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DeadBankerDream posted...

Happy for her, but the description of the book is... a thing.

She mentioned that in her recent vlog-style video about her book - sounds more like a publisher mandate than something she had a hand in. I'm pretty sure she's not happy with it either, and I think her stance on it is "if you think you know where this is going, you're probably wrong".

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Basically - are you one of the biggest dorks on the planet, hands down, for writing Skyrim fanfiction? Or are you a basic bitch who picked one of the blandest properties imaginable to write your own budget Game of Thrones about, when any mediocre hack can throw together an original swords-and-sorcery setting of their own?

Alternatively, are you a basic bitch among nerds - still nerdy enough for your fanfic to be regarded as nerdy and weird to the average layperson, but for a property that basically makes you a normie to other fanfiction writers?

Asking because I had an idea for a WLW story about Solitude's housecarl and Temba Wide-Arms, lmao

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Here's how Bernie can still win

but seriously, Bernie Sanders

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teepan95 posted...

So what happens when they interact with physical objects? If I throw a ball at them and they see themselves catching it when they obviously couldn't (since they were frozen in time), what happens?

sorry for picking holes

The ball hits them, their body registers the hit instantly (bruising, recoil, potentially falling over), but they only react to it 30 minutes later. The body knows it's hurt, but the mind only registers it when that occurrence plays out in the person's reality.

In the event of being knocked onto the ground, they would need someone to pick them up and synchronize their actions to their mental pattern. Because of this, their physical actions can occasionally fall out of sync with their mental reality and cause confusion and frustration. However, their synchronisation resets during sleep.

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teepan95 posted...

So when they do something, you experience it straight away? The "lag" is one-way?

Yes. You tell them to wash the dishes, and they experience you telling them to do the dishes 30 minutes later. You have to wait 30 minutes until they respond.

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What if they meet a romantic partner who can see 30 minutes into the future? Do you think they could hold a normal conversation?

Like, because the person who's 30 minutes behind takes 30 minutes to respond to current stimuli, someone who sees 30 minutes ahead can see what their response is going to be in 30 minutes and can time a conversation that way.

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Fuck the general. Individual threads are better.

Compiling the warned/general topics centralises the drama. Individual threads let you pop in and out depending on who's warned, and people shit talking about Person A don't have to talk around Person B or find a way to fold them into Person A's drama.


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KillerKhan420 posted...

So called "anti fascist" haven't been around for 50 years. They've been known for only these past few years and no, they do have a body count and in these "protest" riots the number only grows.

The figures in the OP are from the last 26 years, when antifascist groups and far-right hate groups both existed.

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https://youtu.be/Nbe5RERDh4k

Like damn, I've never heard a song about a bisexual mass murderer forcing a man to give him a blowjob for his life, before shooting him anyway. I wasn't ready for how violent and vulgar this song was, lmao

I've been flicking through Murder Ballads as a whole, pretty great selection of songs tbh.

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Fuck no

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Anyway, another good Korean movie to check out is Castaway on the Moon. It's no Parasite, but it's a pretty solid watch - unnecessarily goofy at times, but from what I remember it was a pretty emotionally rich movie.

The premise is that a depressed salaryman jumps off an overpass in Seoul to kill himself, but he washes up on an island underneath the overpass that's too far away to get anyone's attention. Unwilling to wade into the bay and drown himself, he begins to adapt to his surroundings and take control of his life.

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Mark_DeRosa posted...

the above poster is lying and babbling about antifa .when its been a conspiracy since day 1 by twitter detectives that it was an undercover cop to incite riots and further justify police actions?

Your points are compelling, ngl. I hope my response will be able to respond to your points in a productive and enlightening manner:



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Mark_DeRosa posted...

so It wasnt that undercover cop with some similar eyes

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nemu posted...

I don't get why it matters if they aren't as shitty as the other group. Petty Thieves Against Rapists wouldn't be a group I'd support just because they're against something shittier than themselves. They do more shady shit than good, and the inherent issues with group anonymity makes it bad concept from the get go. You can protest against white supremisist shitbags without needing to follow their particular MO.

I think it's important because they're being compared directly to radical right-wing hate groups, who have a three-figure body count in the same amount of time. There's an argument that's being circulated by the president of the United States that there's "left-wing fascism", that the left is just as violent as the right, but the current radical left scapegoat doesn't have a body count - while radical right-wing groups have been tied to over 100 deaths.

I feel like reducing this to "Petty Thieves Against Rapists" is a pretty gross generalisation, because it furthers this idea that antifa are a bunch of crooks pushing over old ladies to steal their purse. At least from what I've seen, any violence from left-wing protestors has been reactive, not proactive - not really comparable to the actions of a mugger. Antifa is just a label that antifascist protestors adopt when protesting organisations, groups and laws that would seek to normalise elements of fascism - they're not going out with billy clubs, knocking in heads with no impunity. But you've got the Boogaloo Boys and the Proud Boys who actively start conflicts so they can gang up on left-wing protestors and beat the fuck out of them - and what's particularly fucked up is that that's a pattern of behaviour that the police and homeland security are adopting as well. Give them the least amount of leeway possible, yell that you feel threatened, then start firing tear gas into people's faces. So again - it matters to counter this false equivalency that the left is just as violent as the right, and equating Antifa to petty thieves going against a more heinous group of criminals - with the explicit statement that both sides commit crime that's impossible to endorse - is another means to further this false equivalency.

I understand the concern about anonymity, in the same sense that you wouldn't want a group like Anonymous conducting mass doxxings or anything like that. But are anonymous antifa protestors actually overstepping their boundaries and committing proactive, violent crime enabled by their anonymity? Because from where I see it, where protestors are being pushed into unmarked vans and detained illegally, and in a world where BLM protestors from 2014 and beyond have increasingly been going missing and turning up dead - anonymity has only been used to prevent people from being unjustly targeted by law enforcement. Compare this to boogaloo boys and proud boys, who don't cover themselves up and who actively seek to commit violent crime against left-wing protestors, but who aren't being dragged into unmarked vans or being treated violently by the police despite actively taking part in targeted violence. Anonymity is a slippery slope, but the alternative is being catalogued by the police and targeted by them afterwards with mass arrest or unlawful abduction.

And while I understand what you're getting at with "you don't need to stoop to their level to fight them", that line of rhetoric - appealing to some sense of honour, like the only way to fight back against unjust practices is to be better than that - contributes to this continuing idea of "you go high, we go low". The right partakes in some scummy action to undermine the left, and if the left retaliates in any way, they're held to higher scrutiny than the group who sought to undermine them to begin with. You saw it in 2016 when the Republicans blocked any and all Democratic nominations for the Supreme Court in the wake of Scalia's death - the Democratic party could have convened a vote to appoint a replacement anyway, but doing so would have attracted a disproportionate amount of backlash from the right, despite their own underhanded tactics.

Any violence I've seen from Antifa has been in defence. Their MO is to protest policies like migrant child detention, and excessive police force, and laws that seek to strip back regulations and give the government more power than they really need. They're facing excessive violence from the far right, the police force, ICE and the DHS, as well as unlawful detention from those last three organisations, over protests that start peaceful before the police move in to escalate the situation. Simply by defending themselves in the face of violence, they're being held to a higher standard than the police, ICE, DHS and reactionary right-wing groups - all of which have actively incited violence against left-wing protest.

The left trends towards taking the high ground, but look at what they're up against. You can't expect people to just bow to a force who've actively sought to maim them for over a month. Antifascist protestors are protesting against a force who've taken to firing tear gas canisters straight into the faces of protestors, who have blinded people by shooting them in the face with rubber bullets. So what, after protestors have shed blood at the hands of an aggressive police force turning to brutality to quell dissent, they need to be good little eggs who go home and do what the police tell them to do, in hopes that their moral high ground will outshine the actions of the police to attack them, the white house to equate them to neo-Nazi groups and the government agencies who illegally detained them, forced them to sign legal documents under duress and took identifying pictures of their faces? That's not a realistic standard.

Going high meant that the Democrats lost out on a Supreme Court appointment they should have been able to fill. Going high leaves the left wing open to slander that won't be tolerated against the right wing in response. If going high means accepting the sheer depths of brutality that has been levelled against legal protestors, then all that's left to do is let the right get away with whatever they want with no pushback. The only reason you're seeing a left-wing that's willing to fight back is because there is a right-wing willing to attack them.

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They can understand everything perfectly fine, they just experience everything 30 minutes after they happen. You say hello to them, they respond to it 30 minutes later. You ask them a question, it takes 30 minutes for them to receive the question and answer it.

To them, they're responding in real time. But when they answer, large swathes of half-hour silences greet them. When you talk to them, they ignore you and continue with whatever task they were engaged with - until they reply to you, and subsequently have to deal with the 30 minutes after you spoke to them.

Could their condition be worked around? Could specialists educate them in a way that took the 30 minute buffer into account?

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Slayer_22 posted...

It was made with a specific purpose in mind, with a specific biased thought process to find an end result it can specifically point to as proof. Same as the title of the article. Just...disingenuous.

I think it's disingenuous for you to post "no, this is a lie, this isn't real" - and in response to people asking you to prove your statement, you respond with "well it's clearly coming from a place of bias, the title is biased so you can't trust it, they were looking for this result and they made sure they got it".

The group that put these figures forward was a centrist think-tank which came to this conclusion, and they put the results first because that's the most newsworthy aspect of the news.

You say it's clickbaity, but I would argue that "anti-fascists linked to zero murders in 20 years" is less clickbaity than "Scientists Tracked Antifa Murders Over 20 Years - The Results May Surprise You".

You feel like the news is fake. When you can't prove that this is the case, you call it biased and clickbaity. But the problem isn't with the figures or the news - it's with you.

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Xenozoa425 posted...

I have nothing against Greece, but I think it's more than a coincidence that Hanks and his wife are Greek citizens now.

Hanks has a lot of controversy around him being an alleged pedophile (he's apparently on Epstein's flight log), we know that child trafficking and sex rings have existed in the past and currently do exist today (Epstein and Maxwell are just two examples), and pedophilia itself (or more specifically, pederasty, the sexual relationship between adult men and teenage boys) has its origins in ancient Greece among their elites (politicians, warriors, priests, etc).

So what you're saying is... Tom Hanks moved to Greece because he's a pedophile elite who wants to molest more children.

Are you a Qanoner or something?

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Solid Snake

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lmao

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I can respect their reasons for avoiding meat, and I agree with points about meat cultivation being bad for the environment. Overgrazing leads to unworkable land, and a ridiculous amount of water goes into growing feed for cattle and in keeping them hydrated, to the tune of hundreds of litres of water per cow. Considering there are places in the world without suitable drinking water, it seems especially fucked up that we throw millions upon millions of litres of water at factory farming so anyone with money can have a Big Mac.

With that being said, I like eating meat. And while I sympathize with those points I mentioned earlier, I still enable the production of meat and contribute to the waste that comes from the process of factory farming. I'm not in a position where I can easily change that, so I don't.

I also think that you can derive animal products from an animal in an ethical way, if you raise that animal and make sure it leads a good life. For example - chickens lay eggs whether they get fucked by a rooster or not. Eggs are chicken periods, waste produced by the body that the chicken gets no use out of once the egg is laid, and you can ensure that a chicken is treated humanely under your ownership while you collect its eggs to supplement your diet. It doesn't harm the chicken to do this, so it's ethical to eat eggs given that you're taking care of the chicken that lays them. They are literally just bodily waste otherwise.

I also think that people who say that "honey isn't vegan" have reached a point in veganism where they care about the label more than the ethics of the diet. Wild bees are getting killed off by pesticides, and beekeepers are doing their best to conserve and care for their hives while getting a bit of excess honey that bees are producing. All honey that's taken from a beehive is excess honey - the bees have exactly the amount of honey they need, and an excess of honey can be detrimental to the hive.

Bee populations are getting a boost from beekeeping, and the excess honey that beekeepers harvest from their hives isn't starving their bees. It's much more of a symbiotic relationship than an exploitative one - beekeepers take care of the bees, protecting them from factors which would harm them and provide them with as much food as they could ever want, and in exchange the beekeeper scrapes a bit of honey off the hive and makes sure that there isn't a build-up that could cause problems for the hive.

By buying organic honey, you're funding the beekeepers, who'll take care of the bees and help to boost the bee population in a period of time where bee populations are drastically falling. All that disavowing honey does - actual, real honey, not the cheap, fake sugar syrup kind - is actively work against conservation efforts and contribute to the decline of the global bee population.

Ultimately, what vegetarians and vegans get up to is none of my business, and I can live and let live. But in the wider scope of ethical consumption, which I think is a big draw of vegetarianism/veganism, my breaking point is when there is a practice that is arguably helping the animal involved in its production through conservation and better living conditions, or getting use out of what would otherwise be a waste product - and the response is "but it's an animal product, so it's not vegan". Honey in particular.

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Dude is an equal opportunity troll, and I like him for it. He's in it solely for the lulz.

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Damn, two stabs at Greece right out of the gate.

Xenozoa425 posted...

Of all places they pick Greece.

What's wrong with Greece?

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Slayer_22 posted...

No. Because it's just a straight faced lie. Like...it's just wrong.

But is that based on facts and figures, it is it a gut/emotional reaction? Is there a source for what you're saying, or are you personally convinced of this being the case with no evidence to back it up?

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I loved God of War 2's QTEs, for the record. That was as cinematic as the PS2 could get.

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Of the little I've played of The Witcher, the combat feels so light and detached. Like you're whittling down health bars, but the enemies and the attacks don't have the same sort of weight as I'd like. It's probably fine for the sort of game it is, but I never really felt satisfied with how it looks and plays when you fight something. Everything looks so pre-planned and samey after a while.

When I think of fun, weighty combat, I think Ratchet and Clank, Kingdom Hearts and Jak and Daxter. They're cartoony, and two of them really aren't comparable to The Witcher's play style, but enemies feel solid and real and weighty, and your attacks feel like they land. Kingdom Hearts, while not directly comparable to The Witcher's gameplay, is an action RPG where you primarily use a sword and magic to defeat opponents - and every hit, every swath of enemies you cut through, feels weighty and fun.

I dunno. Honestly I feel like video game combat took a nosedive with Batman Arkham Asylum, it was cool at the time but so many games have taken cues from it and baked elements of it directly into their combat systems. I miss when hitting something actually felt like hitting something, and not just unleashing another fancy attack animation for visual flair and minimal impact.

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Yup, that's propaganda.

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First home system was my dad's SNES, first game system specifically for me was a Gameboy Color, first home system for me and my sister was a PS2. 2 out of 3 of those are Nintendo, so I'll go Nintendo - even if that PS2 was the main outlet for my gaming fandom for a decade.

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PrideOfLion posted...

4 should be higher

I'll admit, a lot of my love for the movies comes from Luther. I think he's the most developed and grounded member of the team, even being a more relatable character than Ethan Hunt. What I like about Ethan Hunt is his flair for the dramatic and the lengths he'll go through to make a plan come together - a little bit of character development is fine, with the team-building stuff in 3 arguably being the height of his character, but I enjoy Ethan Hunt as an action setpiece into himself while I like Luther as an actual character.

Jeremy Renner butting heads with Tom Cruise in 4 wasn't my idea of gripping emotional drama, and while I haven't disliked Simon Pegg in the Mission Impossible movies, his friendship arc with Tom Cruise in the post-trilogy movies doesn't have the same weight to it as Tom Cruise being close friends and confidants with Ving Rhames during the entire movie series. 4 was something of a return to form after a shaky trilogy, but the elements of Mission Impossible 3 that stuck were incredible, while 4 was more consistently good but lacking those peaks of drama like 1 and 3 had. And of course, Luther only makes a little cameo at the end. I would have taken Luther over Jeremy Renner any day.

I will say that Mission Impossible 3 used way too much shaky cam, and I'm really not a fan of the color grading. But Luther is at his strongest in that movie, Ethan Hunt had arguably his best character and performance in that movie, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman knocked it out of the fucking park. The post-trilogy movies are pretty good, with Fallout being particularly solid, but I still enjoyed the first and third movie more than I enjoyed the fourth.

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SSJCAT posted...

mission impossible

You got it!

Here are my clues:

The first clue got edited - if you saw the original, or clicked on the post number after it was edited, you would have seen "ZS, JW, one step removed". This is a reference to Justice League, where Zach Snyder had to hand the reins over to Joss Whedon. During reshoots, Henry Cavill wasn't allowed to shave his moustache from MI: Fallout - a movie Cavill was in that was one step removed from Justice League.

My second hint, "You'd think TC would have something better to do", is a reference to Tom Cruise. And then my last post is just giving it away.

Fallout was good, but there's something so wholesome and special about the first movie. I get that it's a slap in the face to fans of the show, but that entire movie is thoroughly entertaining and I think it's incredibly charming.

Fallout was the best movie post-trilogy, followed by 4. I didn't like 5 as much, but it was nothing compared to the oddity that was the second movie. Maybe in time I could reflect on Fallout as the best movie of the series, but there's just something so pure and entertaining about the first movie that none of the other ones have really been able to match. Fallout was the closest to reaching that level of enjoyment I felt from seeing the first one.

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ZeroX91 posted...

Metal gear?

I feel like these last two movies have shared some plot points and themes with Metal Gear, like one character questioning loyalty to your country and potential nuclear warfare.

Also just finished watching the last one - current ranking is 1 > 6 > 3 > 4 > 5 > 2.


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You'd think TC would have something better to do

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Here's a really obtuse hint:

ZS

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Hint: there's more than five of them

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can't wait for the inevitable "just shot a protester, I feared for my life" troll thread

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MrMallard posted...

The idea that I'm familiar with - of course non-caucasian races can exhibit racism and bigotry towards other non-caucasian races. To my understanding, Korean people have been pretty shitty towards black people in the US, to the point that racism against black people among the Korean population hit a peak during the LA riots. You also have people in Japan who are bigoted towards Koreans and Chinese people - racism isn't exclusive to white people.

The reason that white people are singled out is because in the last 500 years, the biggest proponent of genocide has been British colonialism. Australia - the Brits committed genocide against the indigenous population, to the point that aboriginal children were being separated from their parents and raised in white families well into the 20th century. America - of the indigenous tribes that existed at the time, which stretched into three-figure numbers, the ones who haven't been entirely wiped out number in the low two-digit numbers. Sovereign states like Hawaii have been invaded and assimilated into larger countries, with no regard for the people or their traditions. A majority of independence days across the globe are celebrating independence from the British Empire, who stole and raped and who denied native populations their heritage.

There hasn't been a serious, population-spanning slur levelled against white people in the same way that the n-word has been used against black people, and the c-slur and n-slur have been used against Asian races. A majority of today's major racial disparities are directly influenced by the British Empire - white people raping the cultures and DNA of other races to make them "pure", to make them palatable to white sensibilities.

The only terms levelled against the worst stereotypes of white people have been "cracker" - a term to label white people as slave-masters, of which white people were predominantly slave-masters in western civilization - and "mayonnaise", which is an insult directed at bland palates and weak sensibilities towards food. Not one insult towards the race of a white person is rooted in the subjugation and forced assimilation of "white culture" being bent to a more palatable "other", "superior" culture, the same way that the n-word has been used, or that the c-slur and n-slur have been used against Asian people in "white" societies.

In the world we live in, which has been built by British colonialism, white people have taken so much from other races and populations around the globe and other cultures/races have lost their identity, sovereignty and culture to white colonizers. While there are clearly grudges and general unpleasantness between other non-white races, Africans never invaded Japan and subjugated the Japanese people, or imported them to Africa to work as slaves and develop their own culture in an environment of repression and forced assimilation. White people benefit a great deal from societal systems implemented and upholded by white colonizers, and those systems serve to elevate white people to this day while not favoring other races. So in countries that have been built on the principles of colonisation, and which have predominantly favoured lighter complexion - working through ingrained bigotry for other nationalities like Irish and Italian people while consistently rejecting Asian and dark-skinned races - there is nowhere near as much of a struggle for people of lighter complexion compared to races with darker skin and different features. By the power they have historically wielded over non-white races, white people are not able to be "lowered" in the same way that racial slurs against non-white people are considered to "lower" those races.

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I'll admit that the longer you play it the worse it gets, but it is legitimately a great game at its best points and there are aspects of its addictive gameplay that no other video game has really tried to capture since.

The story is objectively more garbage the longer you play, but it's still such a fun game to play that I do agree that it needs some bolstering.

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My friend is a dirty blonde dude, used to have his hair in some dirty dreads. Tonight I burned him, in response to a crack at my "Pure Blonde" ciders, by calling him a filthy ginger on account of his beard.


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EbonTitanium posted...

Colorism.

To my understanding, it's not just colorism though. One Asian race might consider themselves above another Asian race due to folklore or tradition, or because via nationalism they consider themselves as a population above the other poulation.

It's not like Japanese people are like "well we are the superior Asian race" - in instances where different Asian races have fought with each other, the thought has been "we are the superior race". A Japanese person with their own Japanese history and identity isn't just a tangentially related offshoot of a Thai person and their own unique history and cultural identity.

But that's speculation on my part, and I might be framing this in an entirely wrong sort of way. Regardless, conflict between different Asian countries can't just be boiled down to "colorism".

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The idea that I'm familiar with - of course non-caucasian races can exhibit racism and bigotry towards other non-caucasian races. To my understanding, Korean people have been pretty shitty towards black people in the US, to the point that racism against black people among the Korean population hit a peak during the LA riots. You also have people in Japan who are bigoted towards Koreans and Chinese people - racism isn't exclusive to white people.

The reason that white people are singled out is because in the last 500 years, the biggest proponent of genocide has been British colonialism. Australia - the Brits committed genocide against the indigenous population, to the point that aboriginal children were being separated from their parents and raised in white families well into the 20th century. America - of the indigenous tribes that existed at the time, which stretched into three-figure numbers, the ones who haven't been entirely wiped out number in the low two-digit numbers. Sovereign states like Hawaii have been invaded and assimilated into larger countries, with no regard for the people or their traditions. A majority of independence days across the globe are celebrating independence from the British Empire, who stole and raped and who denied native populations their heritage.

There hasn't been a serious, population-spanning slur levelled against white people in the same way that the n-word has been used against black people, and the c-slur and n-slur have been used against Asian races. A majority of today's major racial disparities are directly influenced by the British Empire - white people raping the cultures and DNA of other races to make them "pure", to make them palatable to white sensibilities.

The only terms levelled against the worst stereotypes of white people have been "cracker" - a term to label white people as slave-masters, of which white people were predominantly slave-masters in western civilization - and "mayonnaise", which is an insult directed at bland palates and weak sensibilities towards food. Not one insult towards the race of a white person is rooted in the subjugation and forced assimilation of "white culture" being bent to a more palatable "other", "superior" culture, the same way that the n-word has been used, or that the c-slur and n-slur have been used against Asian people in "white" societies.

In the world we live in, which has been built by British colonialism, white people have taken so much from other races and populations around the globe and other cultures/races have lost their identity, sovereignty and culture to white colonizers. While there are clearly grudges and general unpleasantness between other non-white races, Africans never invaded Japan and subjugated the Japanese people, or imported them to Africa to work as slaves and develop their own culture in an environment of repression and forced assimilation. White people benefit a great deal from societal systems implemented and upholded by white colonizers, and those systems serve to elevate white people to this day while not favoring other races. So in countries that have been built on the principles of colonisation, and which have predominantly favoured lighter complexion - working through ingrained bigotry for other nationalities like Irish and Italian people while consistently rejecting Asian and dark-skinned races - there is nowhere near as much of a struggle for people of lighter complexion compared to races with darker skin and different features. By the power they have historically wielded over non-white races, white people are not able to be "lowered" in the same way that racial slurs against non-white people are considered to "lower" those races.

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Poop2 posted...

Protesters were blinded by cops too.

whats your point?

Yeah, protestors have been losing eyes for months due to getting tear gas canisters and rubber bullets fired point blank at their faces.

Any injury is unfortunate, and everyone deserves to have the full range of their health, but the protestors have been brutalized by the dozen for months on end. I'm not going to weep for three feds being blinded in comparison to the dozens of protestors who've been brutalized over a longer period of time.

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Big_Nabendu posted...

I don't know who this is.
And i don't care

I appreciate the comment

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fhqwhgads posted...

Three hours later...

My notes did get out of hand, but between that list and a 1 hour video, what's more palatable?

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